Women and Regional Politics: Political Determinants of Women's Descriptive Representation in the Czech and Slovak regional Elections 2000-2017
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13410%2F18%3A43894083" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13410/18:43894083 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.4.49-73" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.4.49-73</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.4.49-73" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.4.49-73</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Women and Regional Politics: Political Determinants of Women's Descriptive Representation in the Czech and Slovak regional Elections 2000-2017
Original language description
Although there is an extensive comparative research focusing on the influence of various factors contributing to the increase of female representation at the national level, relatively little space is devoted to a similar research at (sub)state levels of governance. Hence, the main objective of this article is to analyse the determinants of women's descriptive representation in Czech and Slovak regional elections. We show that women's representation at the regional level is lower not only in comparison with the national but especially with the local level. Our results confirm that women are significantly advantaged in the regions where women held a much higher representation in the previous electoral term. However, other factors show only little positive (expected) influence on women's representation in the Czech Republic (district magnitude), while we find negative influence of economic development (unexpected) and Catholicism (expected). On the contrary, in Slovakia, most factors influence women's representation in the expected way. We find higher women's representation in the regions characterized by higher economic development, higher district magnitudes, higher difference in salaries between men and women and a lower share of Catholics and Hungarians. Furthermore, electoral system proves to be a strong factor as a proportional system, together with higher magnitudes, strongly increases women's representation. Generally, while the results from the Czech Republic indicate that women's representation is influenced rather by institutional variables, together with greater openness for women based on previous experience, in Slovakia the relation among various factors is much more complex, influenced by all types of variables.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-01019S" target="_blank" >GA16-01019S: Determinants of women's political representation at the local level in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, 1994–2014</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politické vedy
ISSN
1335-2741
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
49-73
UT code for WoS article
000453459900003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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